John Howard Yoder

John Howard Yoder
Born	(1927-12-29)December 29, 1927 Near Smithville, Ohio, US
Died	December 30, 1997(1997-12-30) (aged 70) South Bend, Indiana, US
Spouse	Anne Marie Guth ​ (m. 1952)​ [2]
Academic background
Alma mater	Goshen College University of Basel
Thesis	Die Gespräche zwischen Täufern und Reformatoren in der Schweiz, 1523–1538[1] (1957)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Staehelin [de][2]
Influences	Karl Barth[3] Harold S. Bender[4] Hendrikus Berkhof[5] Oscar Cullmann[6] Guy Hershberger[7] André Trocmé[8]
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Christian ethics[9] historical theology[3]
School or tradition	Anabaptism
Institutions	Goshen Biblical Seminary Mennonite Biblical Seminary University of Notre Dame
Doctoral students	Marva Dawn[10]
Notable works	The Politics of Jesus (1972)
Influenced	Greg Boyd[11] Shane Claiborne Donald W. Dayton[12] John Dear[13] Stan Goff Stanley Hauerwas[14] Marlin Miller[15] James William McClendon Jr.[16] Bryan Stone Jim Wallis Howard Zehr

John Howard Yoder (December 29, 1927 – December 30, 1997) was an American Mennonite theologian and ethicist best known for his defense of Christian pacifism. His most influential book was The Politics of Jesus, which was first published in 1972. Yoder was a Mennonite and wrote from an Anabaptist perspective. He spent the latter part of his career teaching at the University of Notre Dame.

In 1992, media reports emerged that Yoder had sexually abused women in preceding decades, with as many as over 50 complainants. The Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary acknowledged in a statement from 2014 that sexual abuse had taken place and it had been tolerated partly because he was the leading Mennonite theologian of his day and partly because there were not the safeguards in place that there are today.